have lower levels of violence today. This effect is driven by improved nation building and higher trust towards post …

. Using individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous …-ethnic dimensions. We find that more intense fighting decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are …

, and trust in a large sample of rural young adults in Tigray, Ethiopia, belonging to rural business groups. We rely on … social preference types. We also identify reciprocity norms, generosity, trustworthiness, and trust in in-group and out … generosity, trustworthiness, and trust (reduction of 0.6-0.75 Cohen’s d units) that is strongest among those who behaved …

-term attitudes and behaviours essential to functioning in a society, such as trust. In this paper we ask how exposure to natural … disasters within the impressionable years may affect the formation of trust by matching data from over 1,000 disaster … impressionable years, we show that disaster exposure has a negative and significant association with generalized trust. Additionally …

aware of the behavioral difference: they trust ex-soldiers more because they expect them to be more trustworthy. Last, we …

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …

How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … trust, reconciliation, and community engagement than stayees, whereas the differences between international returnees and … stayees are mostly statistically insignificant. Greater exposure to violence has a more positive effect on trust for returnees …

Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with …